The bacteria thing wasnt just in the book, it was also in the original movie. It was the basis of the story, and part of the suspense.
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I mean sure, they could have done it like ID4, they could have found this one little weakness in the invincible aliens systems. A small 1/4 inch hole that if a bullet was shot there, would trigger a chain reaction blowing everything up. Is that the ending you wanted? That seems worse to me.
That isn't how it happened, if at all. Please watch ID4 again.
But anyway, I dont think it would have made sense for them to follow a guy that ends up dying, so yeah of course he survives all the situations, find me a movie where that doesnt happen.
Agreed, so lets make another shitty movie that does that. Give it an excuse.
You need to start looking at movies in the context of the movie, not if the actor was the best or if they survived an alien attack.You can replace Tom Cruise with x, where x = any actor. You are being too literal. The movie was lame because it wasn't only Tom Cruise, name one
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Ha, I knew you were going to take what I said following ID4 as my description of what happened in ID4. I know how that movie went, I have seen it countless times, it had nothing to do with a bullet in the shields, etc. I was only made ID4 as a reference because it went along those lines. They happened to have a ship hanging around that they knew a lot about, he happened to all of a sudden think of a virus that is compatable with the alien systems. I mean, come on charlie, you are in a major that revolves around programming. You fucking write a windows application and run it on a Mac. I seriously doubt those alien systems were running Windows 98, and I also doubt they could figure out the aliens programming language, and understand it well enough to bypass their systems and create a virus
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I guess its just a different take. I dont see how it was a shitty plot, the only difference was that humans could not shoot their way out of the situation. I dont see why it makes something shitty just because humans couldnt find the answer for it
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Okay, the thing that I dislike about this movie is the contradicting events and unexplained behavior. I will elaborate:
1. The aliens planted the machines underground millions of years ago. Why didnt they just take over the Earth then since humans if they existed were obviously less advanced.
2. Why didnt they die from the bacteria then? If they did, then they would know about it....
3. I did not like how the entire movie was spent running ad then in 5 minutes time the aliens are dying and the movie is over...
other than that, the movie is worth seeing once- but its nothing spectacular
I mean, you didnt like that everyone survived Agree with that statement, someone should have, you saw how close that beam got to Tom Cruise like 10 times.
and you say its like every other movie or whatever
That was you. You referenced that by saying "so yeah of course he survives all the situations, find me a movie where that doesnt happen". Do not put words in my mouth please.
But you also dont like that humans didnt solve the problem
It is not JUST that, they didn't even know why they were dying, they just took it for granted and assumed they were going to live in peace. Coming from a person that doesn't remember the origonal movie very well, I didn't remember the bacteria thing until after. They did not show how the people knew they were dying, it was an "anouncer" that told you so. They had no clue what was going on yet they were all calm about it. This is why I referenced a 3 minute ending, however, explaining it at the end would have dragged the movie on, but that doesn't make the current one any better.
But anyway, I dont think it would have made sense for them to follow a guy that ends up dying, so yeah of course he survives all the situations, find me a movie where that doesnt happen
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"Agreed, so lets make another shitty movie that does that. Give it an excuse." -Charlie
I agree that what you said is correct. It would not make sense to follow someone that died. However, the guy they followed did not develop any story/plot whatsoever, if that makes any sense. Also, your reference to find any movie where it doesn't happen is merely an excuse for the current movie, in which I felt did a bad job in a developing story.
It sounded, to me, in the context I took of your writing, that you were saying that the movie was worse off for using a plot situation present in many other movies.
It is not worse off as a movie creates its own plot. How it develops and chooses to depict that plot is what makes a movie good or bad.
I dont think I put the words in your mouth, I may have changed the actual sentence, but not the meaning.You can't really change the meaning, you had a different perception than how I meant it. By you trying to define what I said, that changes the meaning through what you say. (I.E stating that I said
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I mean sure, they could have done it like ID4, they could have found this one little weakness in the invincible aliens systems. A small 1/4 inch hole that if a bullet was shot there, would trigger a chain reaction blowing everything up. Is that the ending you wanted? That seems worse to me.
That isn't how it happened, if at all. Please watch ID4 again.
But anyway, I dont think it would have made sense for them to follow a guy that ends up dying, so yeah of course he survives all the situations, find me a movie where that doesnt happen.
Agreed, so lets make another shitty movie that does that. Give it an excuse.
You need to start looking at movies in the context of the movie, not if the actor was the best or if they survived an alien attack.You can replace Tom Cruise with x, where x = any actor. You are being too literal. The movie was lame because it wasn't only Tom Cruise, name one ( ... )
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1. The aliens planted the machines underground millions of years ago. Why didnt they just take over the Earth then since humans if they existed were obviously less advanced.
2. Why didnt they die from the bacteria then? If they did, then they would know about it....
3. I did not like how the entire movie was spent running ad then in 5 minutes time the aliens are dying and the movie is over...
other than that, the movie is worth seeing once- but its nothing spectacular
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Agree with that statement, someone should have, you saw how close that beam got to Tom Cruise like 10 times.
and you say its like every other movie or whatever
That was you. You referenced that by saying "so yeah of course he survives all the situations, find me a movie where that doesnt happen". Do not put words in my mouth please.
But you also dont like that humans didnt solve the problem
It is not JUST that, they didn't even know why they were dying, they just took it for granted and assumed they were going to live in peace. Coming from a person that doesn't remember the origonal movie very well, I didn't remember the bacteria thing until after. They did not show how the people knew they were dying, it was an "anouncer" that told you so. They had no clue what was going on yet they were all calm about it. This is why I referenced a 3 minute ending, however, explaining it at the end would have dragged the movie on, but that doesn't make the current one any better.
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I agree that what you said is correct. It would not make sense to follow someone that died. However, the guy they followed did not develop any story/plot whatsoever, if that makes any sense. Also, your reference to find any movie where it doesn't happen is merely an excuse for the current movie, in which I felt did a bad job in a developing story.
It sounded, to me, in the context I took of your writing, that you were saying that the movie was worse off for using a plot situation present in many other movies.
It is not worse off as a movie creates its own plot. How it develops and chooses to depict that plot is what makes a movie good or bad.
I dont think I put the words in your mouth, I may have changed the actual sentence, but not the meaning.You can't really change the meaning, you had a different perception than how I meant it. By you trying to define what I said, that changes the meaning through what you say. (I.E stating that I said ( ... )
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